In Memory of Talbot Chubb

摘要

The cold fusion community lost another valued member when Dr. Talbot Chubb passed away on December 10, 2011 at the age of 88. Chubb received an A.B. in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, 1951). His thesis was awarded the Elisha Mitchell Society Award for the best experimental thesis of the year. Chubb worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tennessee Eastman Y12 facility) on the Manhattan Project, then joined the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in 1950 as an experimental physicist. At NRL, he conducted research that examined the earth's upper atmosphere, the sun and a process for storing energy collected from sunlight (called SolChem).